Metalcut
（重定向自Metal cut）
![Page border by Hans Holbein the Younger; revival of the first technique.](/Images/godic/202501/27/Text_Page_Border_with_Bacchanal,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger4706.jpg")
Metalcut was a relief printmaking technique, belonging to the category of old master prints. It was almost entirely restricted to the period from about 1450 to 1540, and mostly to the region around the Rhine in Northern Europe, the Low Countries, Germany, France and Switzerland; the technique perhaps originated in the area around Cologne.